Вянок / THE WREATH

"The Wreath", cycle of songs based on poems by Maxim Bogdanovich (1891-1917)

CD 1 - Вянок / The Wreath
1. Ой, чаму я стаў паэтам... - Краю мой родны! Як выкляты Богам... / Oh Why I Became a Poet? - My Native Land Is Like Cursed by God... (7:55)
2. Максiм i Магдалена / Maksim and Magdalene (4:52)
3. Вянок / The Wreath (Early version) (4:18)
4. На чужыне / In Exile (4:50)
5. Эмiграцкая песня / Emigrant Song (Early version) (4:11)
6. Слуцкія ткачыхі / Slutsk Weavers (5:05)
7. Па ляду, у глухім бары... / Along the Glade, in Pine Forest... (3:43)
8. Па-над белым пухам вiшняў... / Above the White Fluff of the Cherries... (4:45)
9. Вераніка / Veronica (5:27)
10. Прывет табе, жыццё на волі... / Hail to You, Life in Freedom... (4:54)
11. У Максіма на кашулі вышыты галубкі - Зорка Венера / Embroidered Doves on Maksim's Shirt - Venus the Star (8:11)
12. Лявонiха / Lyavoniha (5:52)
13. Пагоня / Pahonia (National Emblem) (6:11)

Total time: 70:14


CD 2 - Alternative versions
1. Вянок / The Wreath (Final version) (2:39)
2. Эмiграцкая песня / Emigrant Song (Final version) (3:58)
3. Слуцкія ткачыхі / Slutsk Weavers (Alternative mix) (5:13)
4. Лявонiха / Lyavoniha ("Dance" version) (3:39)
5. Пагоня / Pahonia (National Emblem) (Final version) (6:02)
6. Valeriy Dayneko (vocals) and Vladimir Tkachenko (arrangement and guitar) - Слуцкія ткачыхі / Slutsk Weavers (5:22)

Total time: 26:53

- Vladimir Mulyavin / lead and backing vocals, leader
- Valeriy Dayneko / lead and backing vocals
- Igor Penya / lead and backing vocals, keyboards
- Vladislav Misevich / flute, pipe, backing vocals
- Alexander Rastopchin / electric and acoustic guitars
- Oleg Molchan (except "Maksim and Magdalene") / keyboards
- Eduard Tyshko (except "Maksim and Magdalene" and "Veronica") / bass, backing vocals,
pipe, garmon
- Vladimir Belyaev / drums

- Alexander Vislavsky / keyboards on "Maksim and Magdalene" and "Veronica"
- Nikolai Neronski / bass on "Veronica"

"Lost" original 1991 programme compiled from different sources, most of the songs previously unreleased

Recorded:
CD 1: 1, 3-5, 7, 11-13 (rehearsal, live in studio, 1991), 2, 9 (studio, 1989), 6, 10 (studio, 1991), 8 (live, 1991)
CD 2: 1, 3, 5 (studio, 1991), 2 (live, 1991), 4 (studio, 1992), 6 (studio, 1993)

Music: Vladimir Mulyavin,
except "Veronica" (Igor Luchenok) and "Venus the Star" (Simon Rack-Mikhailovsky)
Lyrics: Maxim Bogdanovich

Arrangements: Oleg Molchan, except "Maksim and Magdalene" (Alexander Vislavsky) and "Veronica" (Alexander Vislavsky, Nikolai Neronski)

Sound engineer: Aleksandr Paprotski - all tracks, except "Maksim and Magdalene" and "Veronica" (Leonid Kovalev)

Audio restoration and CD mastering: Nikolai Neronski
Records from the archives of Vladimir Poznyak and Dmitry Terekhin

2CD Kovcheg BYA0117005 (December 10, 2017, Belarus)